"Surrendering" is a song written by Alanis Morissette, and produced by her for her fifth album, Under Rug Swept (2002).
[2] Entertainment Weekly cited the line "I embrace you for your faith in the face of adversarial forces that I represent" as an example of "some of the clumsiest lyrics to be heard on a pop record in years ... [it] may be an appropriate assessment of a relationship, but it's not a chorus.
"[3] The Village Voice named it the best song on Under Rug Swept, saying it shows Morissette's "gift for the all-time pop melody".
[4] NME wrote that "Surrendering" and "Hands Clean", another track on the album, were "overwrought folk-rock [that is] destined for a thousand organic juice bars.
By March 2003 it had reached the top ten on the playlists of radio stations such as Mix 96 and Énergie.